Health minister J P Nadda pledges his organs, promises new rules for organ donation
NEW DELHI: Terming organ donation "an egalitarian and a moral act", Health Minister J P Nadda said the government will come out with rules, regulations and protocols for facilitating organ donation as he pitched for making it a national movement and pledge his own.
Expressing concern over the present rate of organ donation and transplantation not being close to the requirement in the country, he said organs were national resource and not even one should be wasted.
"Donating organs is a gift and is an altruistic, egalitarian and a moral act. We can turn the 'end of a life' into a new beginning with donating our organs.
"Let organ donation become a national movement and show to the world that even in death we care for our fellow citizens and humanity at large. Organ is a national resource and not even one should be wasted," Nadda said.
He along with officers, staffers, doctors, nurses and other paramedical staff members of all central government hospitals of the national capital pledged to donate his organs.
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